Posts from October 2007

October 19, 2007

In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger you can sync contacts, calendars, Mail data, and other information between devices (such as a mobile phone or Palm device) using iSync version 2.0, and other computers through .Mac Sync.

I used to use Apple's iSync software quite often, but hadn't really used it since upgrading to Tiger (OS X 10.4) around two years ago.

Yesterday I started trying to use it again with a Nokia N73, and to my displeasure the Tiger version is actually less useful, and more confusing, than the previous version. There's a menu bar option that will, ostensibly, make syncing really easy--but in the 2.0 version of iSync, it only syncs with .Mac (not your other devices, like phones), unless you have iSync open already. So the menu option "Sync Now" does something completely different depending on whether you have iSync open or not.

Not only that, but if you do open iSync, there's a "Sync Devices" button that does something else--it only syncs to your devices, and not to .Mac:

If you have .Mac, mobile devices, an iPod, and a PalmOS device and want
to sync them at the same time, here's how: Open iSync version 2.0, then
choose Sync Now from the Sync Status menu (not the Sync Devices
button). When prompted, press the HotSync button on your PalmOS
device's cradle.

I feel bad for the poor documentation writer who had to make this seem logical and intentional as opposed to a bizarre implementation choice.

October 03, 2007

I made a batch of them the other day, and we all loved them. And they're so easy: take some pitted dates, stuff them with little sticks of parmesan, wrap with bacon, and stick in the oven for 10 minutes.